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What is Downtime Costing Your Hospital?

Think about the last time your information systems were down. Patient admissions, medical records, and other data collection had to be done on paper, which later had to be scanned in or manually entered into the system. Or maybe the data was never collected at all? How many thousands of dollars in overtime did that cost you—not to menƟ on your damaged reputation from backlogged admissions and delayed orders. How many future clients did you lose from that one incident? How many of your nursing or offi ce staff quit in frustration? How would you like to prevent that from ever happening again?

Combat File Sharing Risk with WAFS™ by Globalscape

When it comes to executing the world’s biggest, most complex projects, organizations must rely on collaborative production methods to accomplish their goals. In industries such as AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) and MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing), team members need to work together on computeraided design (CAD) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) files, often simultaneously. Only with the power and convenience of file replication services can these groups achieve objectives with the short time horizons and massive geographical gaps they face.

How a Cloud Phone System Benefits Multi-Site Businesses?

When a business spans more than one location, the cost and complexity of maintaining the phone system can present major challenges. In many cases, whether as the result of organic growth or acquisitions, IT has inherited a patchwork of disparate hardware, solutions, and providers. Managing and supporting all of this—both from an IT and an accounting perspective—can be time-consuming, frustrating, and even unnerving.

Fallout: The Reputational Impact of IT Risk with Forbes Insight

This report from Forbes Insights provides valuable information on how Security and resilience affect nearly every aspect of your company, including your brand value and reputation.

Why Should Organizations Bother with Software License Optimization?

Flexera Software is the established global leader in Software License Optimization solutions focused on software governance, compliance risk mitigation, and cost control. Our products and services allow you to stop worrying about software audits and compliance – while helping you to optimize your software estate and focus on getting more value from those assets. Is this something you should look at?

Assess Your Software Asset Management Maturity Level and Develop a Plan for Improvement

Managing the software licensing landscape within most companies is a complex task, which is made more complicated by the sheer number of contracts to be managed (hundreds, if not thousands) as well as the different types of licenses that must be administered. Industry trends such as virtualization, cloud, and increased flexibility in software licensing have added to this challenge, ensuring that the complexities associated with understanding and managing software assets continue to increase.

Ovum SWOT Assessment: CA Release Automation

Chandranshu writes that downstream software lifecycle processes, e.g. release automation, are getting increased attention due to trends like continuous delivery and continuous deployment. He says that release automation helps organizations avoid production issues caused by erroneous releases.

CA Release Automation can help organizations move towards continuous delivery, he says, and organizations considering DevOps adoption should shortlist it. Its tight integration with CA Service Virtualization, he adds, makes for a compelling offering for those looking to speed up application delivery.

Staying Agile with Big Data

Like any major technology project, organizations implementing Big Data projects face challenges with aligning business cases, selecting the right technology solutions, and mobilizing the right skillsets. Big data projects add some unique challenges to the mix. With growing awareness of the value of data, organizations must innovate rapidly in the use of that data to preserve competitive edge. And, as they implement solutions, they must contend with a technology base that is becoming a rapidly moving target.

Choosing the Right Storage Platform for Splunk Enterprise

To help businesses easily and cost-effectively realize the benefits of operational analytics, Red Hat has integrated Splunk® Enterprise, an industry-leading platform for delivering real-time operational intelligence, with Red Hat® Gluster Storage, a software-defined storage platform for files, objects, and machine-to-machine data. Using these products together helps enterprise solve the cost and scale problems of explosive analytic data growth.

IDC MaturityScape: Software License Optimization

This study provides organizations with a framework of stages, critical measures, outcomes, and actions required for the effective management of software license assets for the purposes of spend optimization. IDC's Software License Optimization MaturityScape can be used to assess current competencies and maturity and identify steps for improvement as well as help identify the critical people, process, and technology strategies that help drive effective software license optimization.

DevOps: Enterprise Organizations Newest Best Practices

The research shows DevOps delivers 18% faster time-to-market and 19% better app quality/performance.

The application economy is motivating leaders to make critical changes across IT and the business, one of the most significant being the adoption of DevOps. For enterprise IT organizations who need to accelerate delivery of apps and provide customers with higher-quality software, faster, DevOps–with its focus on collaboration across IT domains from development to delivery–is increasingly the answer.

Building a Shortcut Between Innovation and Business Value

Struggling with delivering new capabilities to the market in a timely manner? Start your DevOps journey now and learn how implementing Continuous Delivery solution can be the ultimate competitive differentiator for your business.

Read this executive brief to learn:

How to bring innovation and business value together more rapidly How to improve Communication and collaboration between development and operations teams How to improve quality and increase visibility to the application deployment process.

DevOps Perspectives: IT luminaries discuss the major issues impacting DevOps today

Industry leaders share insights on DevOps and big data, ITIL, testing and more. Once again, we have spent time talking to leading community figures such as Dave Farley (“Continuous Delivery” author) to discuss the major issues impacting DevOps today.

This latest issue features comments from 10 experts and covers many hot topics such as:

• Enterprise DevOps transformation

• DevOps and big data

• DevOps and ITIL

• Shadow IT vs DevOps

• 6 Habits of Effective DevOps Practitioners

• DevOps and Testing

Improve IT Agility and Efficiency: Analytics Deliver New Insights into Operational Big Data

EMA is very much aligned with the directions that IBM is taking in its IT operations analytics strategy and product portfolio. While there is room for improvement, EMA remains optimistic that Netcool Operations Insight is the next step in a continuing set of leadership moves by the company.

APM SaaS and Analytics Step Up to Meet the Needs of Modern Applications, Mobile Users, and Hybrid Cloud Architectures

This IDC Technology Spotlight report examines the critical role that SaaS and analytics are playing in the transformation of the APM market. The paper also considers the impact that IBM's recently introduced Performance Management (SaaS) and IT Operations Analytics offerings will have on the APM market.